Tag: wild
member name: The Wilderness Society
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September 18, 2006 11:26 AM EDT --
Ask Congress to Defeat this Bill
The wild lands of the Zion-Mojave region of southwestern Utah feature stunning and dramatic landscapes of sandstone cliffs and canyons, Joshua tree forests, and more. . . .
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September 19, 2006 11:34 AM EDT --
Tourists, Scientists, and Locals All Turning to Monument for Opportunity.
DENVER, CO (September 18, 2006) -- Ten years after former President Clinton designated Grand Staircase - Escalante National . . .
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August 11, 2006 01:18 PM EDT --
More than 300,000 acres of national forest and up to a half million acres of other public lands would be sold if Congress goes along with two proposals in President Bush's 2007 budget. Both ideas have . . .
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October 24, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
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Bridger-Teton National Forest's Wyoming Range, Wyoming
What's At Stake?
With spectacular mountain meadows, blue-ribbon trout streams . . .
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October 27, 2006 01:19 PM EDT --
For Immediate Release:
Feds Plan to Mothball Nation's First Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge System Funding Reaches Crisis Point
October 26, 2006 – A federal plan made public today . . .
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October 19, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
CALIFORNIA'S CARRIZO PLAIN NATIONAL MONUMENT
What's At Stake?
Visitors often describe California's Carrizo Plain as a place frozen in time. Known for its spectacular spring wildflower . . .
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September 13, 2006 04:58 PM EDT --
The wild lands of the Zion-Mojave region of southwestern Utah feature stunning and dramatic landscapes of sandstone cliffs and canyons, Joshua tree forests, and more. These lands, many of them wilderness . . .
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September 26, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY; ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE; CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; EARTHJUSTICE; NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL; NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER; SIERRA CLUB;
and THE WILDERNESS . . .
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October 11, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
The Gift
Beneath silver is feather, beneath feather
is dream,
open and porous
as the flow of the spring river,
steady as the trebling of this cricket
in pink roses
here at Point Reyes as night
comes down. . . .
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October 11, 2006 01:16 PM EDT --
Exchange
- Fairbanks, Alaska
As I peeled birch bark
with a borrowed blade
from fresh stove-cut lengths
piled behind my friend's . . .
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November 17, 2006 11:39 AM EST --
Otero Mesa, New Mexico
What's at Stake?
Otero Mesa encompasses 1.2 million acres of Chihuahuan Desert grassland between the Hueco and Guadalupe Mountains in eastern New Mexico. This expanse of pristine . . .
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October 27, 2006 01:03 PM EDT --
Grand Mesa Slopes, Colorado
What's at stake?
The Grand Mesa Slopes tower stunningly above the Grand Valley in western Colorado. The area is home to a great diversity of forest types and wildlife habitat, . . .
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November 16, 2006 09:21 AM EST --
Clear Fork Divide, Colorado
What's at Stake?
The wild peaks and deep forests of western Colorado—areas like the Clear Fork Divide region–helped inspire the country's first Wilderness . . .
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October 31, 2006 10:22 AM EST --
Utah's Redrock Wilderness
What's at Stake?
Although much of Utah remains wild today, only approximately 1 million acres of this vast state are protected as wilderness. Citizens have identified . . .
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August 15, 2006 04:49 PM EDT --
North Slope Oil Development: Air and Water Pollution, Spills, and Sprawl
Three decades of oil industry public relations have drilled away at one familiar theme that belies the reality on the ground: that . . .
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October 18, 2006 04:23 PM EDT --
At Stake
19.6 million acres of boreal forests, rugged mountains, sweeping tundra vistas, wild rivers, coastal lagoons, and barrier islands so untrammeled that one may walk for days without seeing signs . . .
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November 02, 2006 02:48 PM EST --
Roan Plateau, Colorado
What's at Stake?
The towering and spectacularly lush Roan Plateau is located just northwest of Rifle, Colorado. Rising precipitously 3,500 feet above the Colorado River valley, . . .
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November 14, 2006 09:21 AM EST --
Upper Green River Valley, Wyoming
What's at Stake?
Located 100 miles southeast of Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley consists of sagebrush mesas punctuated by meandering . . .
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October 04, 2006 04:02 PM EDT --
Leaving only footprints where night stays light
By Diane Daniel, Globe Correspondent
Boston Globe - October 1, 2006
Reprinted with permission from Diane Daniel
WHO: Heather and Steve . . .
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October 30, 2006 04:28 PM EST --
Rocky Mountain Front, Montana
What's at Stake?
A land of spectacular mountains towering over
rolling plains and sparkling rivers, Montana's
Rocky Mountain Front is where the shortgrass
prairies . . .
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